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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1913
Page
5
A 1910s style notice urges three meals daily and suggests Aunt’s Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy. It cautions against promises of rapid recovery and links digestion to daily work, rest, and flesh-forming meals, warning against comforting but misleading claims.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy for indigestion and stomach disorders. It claims modern diets lack natural digestive ingredients and promises quick relief by digesting large grain amounts with a single box priced at 50 cents.
Readers weigh in on who Cain's wife was with biblical and historical arguments. Contributors cite Genesis, Jewish sources, and historical examples to argue whether Cain married a sister, niece, or other relative, noting Adam's long life and large offspring.
A reader letter protests cafes selling liquor to women and calls for banning them with strict licenses. Other notes discuss propriety of visiting a sick boyfriend, marriage troubles, and a request for divorce guidance. A reader offers financial help for needy families and a response promises shoe aid for a recipient child.
A garbled collection notes Hillie Burke born in Washington in 1886. A legal claim states a man bears no responsibility for his wife's debts incurred before marriage. A remedy called Pure with hazel cream is noted for chap ped hands. Postage rates under parcel post law detailed: under 4 ounces one cent, weights above charged by pound, maximum 11 pounds. Various ancient peoples and months are listed with dates. The Chinese year description discusses months and intercalary months, then a correction about a 60 year cycle with 22 intercalary months.
A mid season afternoon dress for a matron features embroidered white chiffon with marten fur trim and a black velvet tunic over a surface waist and marrow skirt. The ensemble includes a mother of pearl and jet cabouchon at the waist and a plush hat with white plumes, claimed to shave ten years off the wearer’s appearance.
A fashion magazine page, about 59 years old, was found embedded in a large oak cut down on Harold Corliss’s ranch near Phoenix Oregon. The paper remained intact as the tree grew around it. Corliss plans to display the hoop skirt fashion sheet at Dreamland tonight.
A vintage ad touts Cascarets as the best laxative for liver stomach and bowel distress. It promises quick relief from headaches biliousness dizziness and nervous distress by cleansing the inside organs. The 10 cent box allegedly provides months of health happiness and a clear head. All druggists sell Cascarets and it is recommended for children as well.
A sequence of discounted neckwear prices shows new prices for various original amounts. Specific reductions include items originally priced at 1.75 now 1.20 and 2.25 now 1.55, through to 10.00 now 6.75.
A 15 year old school girl won first honors in an amateur aviation meet in Chicago and built two airships, working on a third. Her first model flew poorly, the second could fly, and the current project aims to carry her as pilot. The article details materials and construction of wings, fuselage, landing gear, and propeller, highlighting parabolic wing ribs, silk-covered surfaces, and careful balance.
In Pottsville on January 8 Miss Catherine Reinhart a deaf mute gazed at a large bird flying overhead and toppled from a stable roof. She suffered a fractured skull collar bone and two broken ribs and remains in critical condition.
Jas A Hardman of Venice saves Miss Ray Murphy by pulling her from the path of a Pacific Electric train. He drives in a vaquero trick from his car seat and reaches the woman while steering with one hand. The auto is hit by the train, overturns, but both escape injury.
Miss Catherine Boyle 19 of Dorchester sought hospital care for chest pain at Carney Hospital. Surgeons removed a fragment of a safety pin that had been in her shirtwaist for a year after it broke when she was in New York. The pain awakened her five nights ago.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine claiming to double hair beauty by cleansing dust oil and dandruff while invigorating the scalp. It promises new hair growth after weeks of use and urges purchase of a 25 cent bottle from drugstores or toilet counters.
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